TWO WEEKS IN A ROW!? WHAT????
Sunday 2/23: Raced the Cowtown Marathon in 2:35 to get a share of the money for breaking the existing course record of 2:36. Felt good, ran 5:47 pace through 20 miles then slowed down a bit for the last 10k.
Monday 2/24: 4 miles (Lunch) at 8:05 pace. Felt terrible, super sore in the achilles from the race
Tuesday 2/25: 6.8 miles (AM) and 4 miles (PM) at 7:50 to 7:56 pace
Wednesday 2/26: 9.5 miles (AM) and 4 miles (PM) at 7:30 to 7:50 pace
Thursday 2/27: 8.5 miles (AM) and 5.5 miles (PM) at 6:45 (did a workout with Emily - 6 miles at 6:20ish
pace) to 7:20 pace
Friday 2/28: WORKOUT (finally!): 10.2 miles (AM) with 3.2 miles @ 5:21 pace, 4 minute jog, 7x30 second sprint, 1:30 recovery around McAllister Park (total of 5.7 miles @ 6:04 pace). Felt good, very different running fast after a long time not working on that. The tempo felt just a little bit out of control but not bad all things considered.
Saturday 3/1: 8.2 miles (AM) and 5.5 miles (PM) at 7:15 to 7:30 pace.
Weekly Total: 93 miles total, roughly 30 miles of quality? Debatable whether the last few miles of the marathon really count, but since I'm making up this definition, I'm counting it. I had planned on doing my first real workout back on Thursday, but I still felt absolutely terrible by then. Cowtown is a tough, tough course, and it beat me up good. That being said Friday's workout felt great, so I'm happy to be back to training seriously. Also, small preview, I did a 10 mile tempo this morning in 54:51, so not at all a bad workout. Although sadly now only slightly below marathon pace.
Happy training everyone! And Texans enjoy at least one more week of winter weather!
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